...had originally suggested the tale, and by this simple artifice the unity of the work is preserved. The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither'd cheek and tresses gray Seemed to have known a better day. The harp, his sole remaining joy,...

...Honour the king." " Sometimes the linnet piped his song, Sometimes the throstle whistled strong." " The way was long, the wind was cold ; The minstrel was infirm and old." " So he spoke, so I replied." " This is foolish, that is wise." " I was robbed of all my money ; for...

...talks as it's most used to do. SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL INTRODUCTION I could lie down like a tired child. 3° And weep away the life of care Which I have Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren...

...shame should this be true!) SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL J INTRODUCTION is delightful world. along Through beds of sand and matted rushy So, on the bloody sand, Sohr tresses~gray Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried byjan...

...da J. Logie Robertson (Oxford University Press, 1910). La vita raminga dell'ultimo Menestrello (1). THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His withep'd cheek, and tresses gray, (1) n bardo a cui Scott fa cantare la storia d'amore fra Cranstoun...

...merciful man is merciful to his ass," observed my sententious friend. " Bring him by all means ! ' The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy ' ; and I have no doubt the orphan boy can get some cold victuals in the kitchen, while the Senatus...

...eight-syllable '. The usual name of the 8-syl. rhyming iambic metre used in Hudibras, The Lady of the Lake, &c. The way was long, the wind was cold ; The minstrel was infirm & old. ode (Lit.) ; ' song '. The OED definition of the word in its prevailing modern sense may be...

...long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infinn and old; His wither'd cheek, and tresses gray, Seem'd to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining...Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry. Wordsworth tiltaler Scott med det nye hædersnavn i Yarrow...

...also. And the second is the iambus or iambic, in which the stressed syllable follows the unstressed : The way was long ; the wind was cold The minstrel was infirm and old. Of the foot composed of one stressed and two unstressed syllables we have three types. The first is...

...idicule D. 6. 0 ctangula R. 7. S tilett 0. 8. E xcer P. OWN PUZZLES (page 317). MISSING-LETTER PUZ2LE. " The way was long, the wind was cold, ' The minstrel...was infirm and old ; His withered cheek and tresses grey Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan...